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October 11-15, 2014
Meeting with Live!y (www.mylively.com/)
SSIR Technology, Cognition and Behavior fall break trip to San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, California
I only caught this sign out of the corner of my eye as I was skipping past, but something jarred. It took me a moment to work out what it was.
A brief cameo on the strength of visual memory and cognition, particularly in terms of recognition and patterns.
Nodi Islam, 'Tracing Topophobia in Richard Power’s The Echo Maker: (De)Construction of Identity Vis-a-vis Unsuccessful Cognition of Conceived and Lived Places'
Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Tanzania 2015
Elephant cognition is the study of animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical elephant, a whale's brain is barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. In addition, elephants have around 257 billion neurons. Elephant brains are similar to humans' and many other mammals' in terms of general connectivity and functional areas, with several unique structural differences. Although initially estimated to have as many neurons as a human brain, the elephant's cortex has about one-third of the number of neurons as a human brain.
Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and communication. Further, evidence suggests elephants may understand pointing: the ability to nonverbally communicate an object by extending a finger, or equivalent. It is thought they are equal with cetaceans and primates in this regard. Due to such claims of high intelligence and due to strong family ties of elephants, some researchers argue it is morally wrong for humans to cull them.
Aristotle described the elephant as "the animal that surpasses all others in wit and mind."
Looking for reflections on a late afternoon photo shoot - found them and a hungry mallard, too! The concentric circles, though, are what caught my eye!
Mathematical concepts are often evident in nature and in our daily environment. I often think about how much learning is done (and could be done) out of the classroom...and I know there are specific field trips or activities that focus on that connection. But are we helping our students learn to see that on their own? Do they seek out those learning connections on a daily basis? I would guess there are a lot of missed opportunities for meta-learning, but I think images can help to springboard that type of cognition. Garden of Hope & Courage, Naples, FL
A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech". When the awakening occurs out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in which most dreams occur, the hypnopompic state is sometimes accompanied by lingering vivid imagery. Some of the creative insights attributed to dreams actually happen in this moment of awakening from REM.
A functional imaging scan from a neuroimaging study performed by the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) Team at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, shows the increase in brain activation from actual transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) compared with that of a sham consumer product. The NIBS lab, part of the Cognitive Performance Optimization Section, Applied Neuroscience Branch, Warfighter Interface Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate of the 711th Human Performance Wing, explores how directed electrical stimulation to the human brain affects cognition, fatigue, mood and other areas with the end goal of improving warfighter awareness, memory and focus. (Courtesy photo / Dr. Richard A. McKinley, Ph.D.)
graphic representation of the function and structure of schemata (prior knowledge) in cognition and learning
Jasimen Phillips (°1986) is an American abstract artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The scope of her art ranges from large scales gestational abstractions to mixed media photography. Phillips is best known for her multidisciplinary practice relating to the human condition and implicit cognition. www.jaamzin.com/blog/abstract-artist-jasimen-phillips
Ordering me to bookmark a page does not make me happy - I should be able to sign-in via the same place I registered (which is easy to remember/get to).
I had to get back to this page by searching through me email - if i bookmark it I'm just going to have to search through my bookmarks.
A robot from the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) located in Pensacola, Florida, exits a vehicle during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC) June 5 in Pomona, California. The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)
Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behavior impair their social or occupational functioning. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood.
There are many issues with classifying a personality disorder, is it really a disorder; or just hard to get along with. There are many categories of definition, some mild and some extreme. Because the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders stem from prevailing cultural expectations, their validity is contested by some experts on the basis of invariable subjectivity. They argue that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on social, or even sociopolitical and economic considerations. Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)
Not to be confused with Type A personality.
Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others, anhedonia, introspection.
Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)
Not to be confused with Type B personality.
Antisocial personality disorder: a pervasive disregard for the rights of others, lack of empathy, and (generally) a pattern of regular criminal activity.
Borderline personality disorder: extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.
Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriately seductive behavior and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and social inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.
Because container house can be free assembly, recycled and low cost, it is developing soon, people of container house continue to deepen the cognition, and also gradually improve approval.
In our country, the main purpose of the container houses still focused on the site, as dormitory and office lounge, a small amount for public sanitation facilities, street activities such as small shops. But in many foreign countries and countries, container housing has become a building industry a kind of popular trend, by the young fashionable gens eventually, in commercial and residential areas have been widely, such as container coffee shop, container supermarket, container hotel (hotel), container library, container office building, green container residential (villa), container observation deck...
In order to let the container get better development and application, production and manufacturers should container houses is devoted to the development and diversification of multi-function container, mobile home, and, with energy saving of environmental protection concept thorough popular feeling, more efforts to improve the scientific and technological content of the container houses, add more energy conservation and environmental protection element.
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Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behavior impair their social or occupational functioning. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood.
There are many issues with classifying a personality disorder, is it really a disorder; or just hard to get along with. There are many categories of definition, some mild and some extreme. Because the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders stem from prevailing cultural expectations, their validity is contested by some experts on the basis of invariable subjectivity. They argue that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on social, or even sociopolitical and economic considerations. Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)
Not to be confused with Type A personality.
Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others, anhedonia, introspection.
Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)
Not to be confused with Type B personality.
Antisocial personality disorder: a pervasive disregard for the rights of others, lack of empathy, and (generally) a pattern of regular criminal activity.
Borderline personality disorder: extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.
Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriately seductive behavior and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and social inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.
The stage setup for Cognition. Canberra, September 2008.
You can see Ben in the foreground on the left using a video camera to incorporate the actors movements into the video projection. Michael and Hanna are in the centre operating the suspended screens and Charles is performing on drumset on the right.
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Photos showing impressions of the Ars Electronica Garden Berlin: "Artificial Reality – Virtual Intelligence" by University of Applied Science Berlin – School of Culture and Design, Department of Communication Design (DE).
As our environment undergoes its digital transformation, what might be understood as ’objective’ reality is increasingly being modified by a superimposed virtual realm. Virtual reality and mixed reality technologies are laying the foundation for a transition to a new form of mass media. At the same time a global pandemic has subjected the dream of a new virtual and networked world to a wake-up call. Social distancing temporarily shuttered cultural spaces and educational institutions, and the need for virtual spaces and meeting places continues to grow. What do these worlds look like? Which rules should apply to them? Who is allowed to participate in them? The exhibition ARTIFICIAL REALITY – VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE showcases student projects that deal with these questions: By means of a Brain Computer Interface, the emotional state of the participant influences the perception of the virtual world. The exhibition explores the limits of human cognition by linking the physically experienced environment and a simultaneously projected minimally altered VR environment, resulting in a form of psychic dissonance. Ongoing dialogue with a voice assistance system creates new virtual worlds and reproduces the themes of power and powerlessness vis-à-vis an omnipresent intelligent machine. The works, all created during the Corona pandemic in distance learning programs, address relevant social issues raised by digital transformation processes: ARTIFICIAL REALITY BIG ART GENERATIVE DATA and VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE.
Credit: Andreas Ingerl
Mirror neurons and social cognition – Gold nuggets for advertisers or just too complex to be practical?
Even if you limit your reading these days to Stieg Larsson, the free newspapers on the underground, and the trade press you probably have come across a few scientific concepts that many advertisers get very excited about: Mirror neurons, social neuroscience, and theory of mind. Understanding how these social systems in the human brain work and how we use them to make sense of our social environment might hold the secrets for triggering empathy in people, for evoking emotions in ad viewers and ultimately how to create more effective campaigns. If only the bloody science behind these things wasn’t so complicated and one knew where to start in understanding them!
Just last week the academic publishing house Cell Press organised a one-day workshop at the University of London’s Birkbeck College on Social Cognition, the scientific area into which mirror neurons and all those other exciting discoveries broadly fall. The contributors were all first-rank scientists and luminary figures in their respective fields delivering very high-level overviews on the state of knowledge for each topic. Of course, the workshop wasn’t targeted at advertising people or marketeers (academics normally don’t feel the need to explain anything to the business world). Instead, the audience was mainly academics from a broad range of disciplines (biology to neuroscientists to social scientists). But the workshop was all free and advertising professionals could have attended (if they hadn’t been too busy to put the last touches to the very important deck for that really important pitch next week … you know how it is). So, I as the Scientist in Residence for DDB UK, was probably the only one in the audience who actually listened with an advertising ear to the latest developments in social cognition.
Since the initial publication by a research team around Giacomo Rizzolatti in 1992 mirror neurons have had a steep career and are today very widely postulated as a neural system that can explain a variety of phenomena from consciousness to the understanding of what other people are thinking (the so-called theory of mind) and the learning of complex motor and social behaviour. Really, if you do a literature search for mirror neurons these days it seems like they can explain almost any interesting human behaviour. Essentially, mirror neurons are ensembles of nerve cells in probably three different areas of the human brain that are active when we perform a certain action (like grab a cup of tea or hit a ball with a tennis racket) but also when we see other people perform the same action. By this very behaviour they could explain how we make sense out of the world around us and why we primates can learn so quickly: whenever we see someone performing an action it is a bit like we are doing the same thing ourselves. You have to admit that this sounds very elegant (and may trigger all sorts of philosophical speculations if you are that kind of guy), but as James Kilner from University College, London explained, a) they are only directly proven to exist in monkeys, b) it is unclear what they ‘mirror’ when an action that you see is ambiguous, and c) people with lesions in presumed mirror neuron areas (to be precise: the inferior frontal cortex, the inferior parietal lobe, and the super temporal sulcus – if you want to show off at the next Christmas party) can still understand the intentions behind the actions they see. Kilner thus reckons that many claims of what mirror neurons actually do have been a bit bold. They indeed seem to be active when we observe actions predicting what is going to happen next when someone is whacking a tennis racket towards a flying ball (or towards a referees head). But mirror neurons might actually not encode the intention of an action – why the tennis racket is on collision course with the referees head (and you could clearly see that there might be several reasons that caused an incident like this to happen). Thus, Kilner suggests that the function of mirror neurons is at a lower level, being more concerned with how an action is performed (eg its kinematics) rather than why it is being performed.
Does this make them less attractive to the advertiser with a curious scientific mind? Take a look in the mirror and decide.
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Professor Ishiguro is the worlds foremost android engineer. He's best known for making geminoids ("robot clones") of himself, his wife, and his daughter. It's all incredibly non-creepy, actually, and his lecture was a great deal of fun.
Main points of the lecture included:
How "generous" human perception/cognition systems actually are in assigning personhood to a robot if it does person-like things. (There is an elevator out of the uncanny valley)
How human touch-taboos, and listener/speaker gaze patters assert themselves within minutes of beginning interaction with an android.
How children (~3 year olds) are easy to impress but damn hard to fool. The Blade Runners of tomorrow will have lunches packed by their mom.
No photos during the lecture, but you can see the man himself (and the android itself) here:
Day two hundred thirty/365. About a year and a half ago, I bought a PDA. I was a band dad. I was spending time in the high school parking lot, waiting for my son to come out after an event. Instead of finding a street light to sit under so that I could read a book, I thought it would be good to have a back-it screen and an e-book. It worked out well. I got to like the blue glow.
It was just an experiment when I started putting my schedule on the PDA. Of course, I kept up my paper planner, as well. I'm a visual person. I liked to use stickers, colors, and symbols that no one else knew. I liked the feel of paper in my hands. It seemed more certain than a memory chip.
But, I did eventually change completely to the PDA. In fact, I gave my first one to my wife, so that she could keep track of her medications, exercise schedule, games, and other matters of importance to someone whose cognition is slightly compromised. This photo shows her hands and her PDA, as she muses over her health care.
I upgraded to the next model. And, I love it. I keep digital photos in it. A digital Bible, lists, all sorts of stuff.
It's an interesting thing. Are we better able to express ourselves the old fashioned way, with colored pencils and stickers on paper? Or, is it better for those who have an artistic flair to use digital devices with plastic cases?
The Benton Facial Recognition Test tests subjects ability to recognise faces seen from other angles. I predict that Japanese, especially those with high private shame, would be better at this test due to their improved ablity to see an imagine from a simulated perspective. When Japanese sit in circles in groups they often have a great ability to sense the concensus of the group as judged from the expressions and non verbal communication of other group members. I find myself having to move my head to look at the all the other members in order to be able to mimic the same trick, but Japanese seem to be able to use peripheral vision and oblique facial views.
I have also hypothesized that the Japanese should have cognitive skills similar to those of the deaf, since they are less likely to use (and their promblem solving skills are even impaired by using) phonetic mental imagery (Kim, 2002). Deaf children are better at the Benton test as shown in the above graph. Japanese subjects should outpeform Western subjects too but direct comparisons would be difficult due to the need to use a different set of faces. I note that an Asian versio of the test exists.
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Emmorey, K., Kosslyn, S. M., & Bellugi, U. (1993). Visual imagery and visual-spatial language: Enhanced imagery abilities in deaf and hearing ASL signers. Cognition, 46(2), 139-181.
A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech". When the awakening occurs out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in which most dreams occur, the hypnopompic state is sometimes accompanied by lingering vivid imagery. Some of the creative insights attributed to dreams actually happen in this moment of awakening from REM.
During PBS’ YOUR INNER FISH session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena CA on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, host Neil Shubin, series producer
David Dugan, evolutionary biologist Karen Sears and executive producer
Michael Rosenfeld discuss how the genetic legacy of prehistoric animals can be seen today in our own DNA.
(Premieres Wednesdays, April 9-23, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET.)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
iCub è un robot androide costruito dall'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) di Genova. Alto 104 cm e pesante 22 kg, la sua estetica e funzionalità ricordano quelle di un bambino di circa tre anni.
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iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence.
It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium of several European universities and built by Italian Institute of Technology, and is now supported by other projects such as ITALK.[1] The robot is open-source, with the hardware design, software and documentation all released under the GPL license. The name is a partial acronym, cub standing for Cognitive Universal Body. Initial funding for the project was €8.5 million from Unit E5 – Cognitive Systems and Robotics – of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme, and this ran for sixtyfive months from 1 September 2004 until 31 January 2010.
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‘Cognition’ is a digital painting that calls into question the future of artificial intelligence and how it could impact our way of life. It presents an android in the pose of the thinker, implying artificial intelligence with sentience. This may seem like a beautiful development but when you think deeper there are grave consequences of this. Wouldn’t using sentient AI for labor be slavery all over again? How do we decide whether they are sentient or not and do we give them human rights? And worstly, what happens if people disagree, leading to a conflict on how they should be treated?
The Canine Cognition and Behavior lab enjoying local music and brews at The Lunchbox in Gainesville, FL. Minolta X700 - Rokkor 58mm f 1.4 - 35mm - Kodak Portra 400 shot at 1600 - No Push - Minor Blue Curve Adjustment in Gimp
This image is also an experiment on "tags" as I have added many more than I usually do and have kept them relatively related to the image though some have gone far afield. I have avoided using sex or sexual terms to boost my keywords. But I have researched popular searches on google images right now to add a couple of tags. As I said this is an experiment and not a trend of action for me.
About Ela's work:
In her first year MFA exhibition, Ela Boyd's light installations function as perceptual interfaces to explore apparition cognition. Using the tangible as an apparatus to catalyze the intangible, Boyd asserts the actuality of appearances. Holograms reflecting a series of adumbrated movements, projections that become windows into imagined worlds and light refractions giving the appearance of dimensionality, form an optical field that serves to collapse and expand the spatio-temporal experience. In spatializing the image and focusing on the decentralized character of the object, she posits a subject/object constellation wherein each node projects its image outward. Being-in-the-world is the intersubjective in-between space, visible in the superimposition of projected images.
This virtual reality dome at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) allows researchers to assess environmental and equipment impacts on Soldier cognition, including decision-making, spatial memory and navigation. The research is part of the broader mission of the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, created jointly by NSRDEC and the Tufts University School of Engineering, which will also examine Soldier interactions with autonomous robotic platforms to augment and optimize human cognition, mood and physical capabilities. (Photo by David Kamm, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command)
Mindmeister has a nice looking interface and does some flashy things with HTML but suffers from some basic usability problems.
For example, when I received this email, the first thing I saw was 'support for font sizes and styles', like I even remember signing up for this service or what it is.
This is something that happens a lot when you sign-up for projects that are in 'beta' - you receive an email saying basically 'our project is done - you should be as interested in it as we are.
Well, most people won't be unless they are reminded what you site does and why they might have signed up for notification in the first place.
Also, clicking on the Mindmeister logo doesn't take me to the homepage of the site.
I don't mean to sound totally negative, I think this is a great product and Google should aquire it ASAP.